What are your opinions and why?
2007-11-27 01:36:28 · 18 answers · asked by BloozieSpoo 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Absolutely. The Japanese were warned. They were a savage, brutal imperial nation. Everyone in the country was on a war footing. It was estimated that as many as one million soldiers would be killed if the US had to invade the home islands.
Tokyo had been burned to the ground, already. The US gave six days for Japan to surrender before dropping the second bomb.
2007-11-27 01:41:51 · answer #1 · answered by regerugged 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Yes, it saved millions of lives by preventing an invasion of the Japanese home islands. Look at Iwo Jima... in 30 days thousands of lives were lost for an island only a few miles long. Imagine the blood (of not only of soldiers but the lives of civilians as well) that would have been lost if an invasion would have happened or if the war went on for 1-2 more years.
And anyone who thinks the dropping of the bombs was the most barbaric event in ww2 should look up the Rape of Nanking (Nanjing) or obviously the Holocaust.
2007-11-27 09:52:47 · answer #2 · answered by Stone K 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Absolutely Y E S, The Japanese were warned that they would be destroyed if they did not surrender. If the United states had went ahead and invaded Japan, that would of caused more deaths than the 2 Atomic bombs, so we dropped them and the Japanese surrendered!
2007-11-27 18:05:28 · answer #3 · answered by Vagabond5879 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The same question could be asked, was Pearl Harbor necessary? While it destroyed several warships, it also killed a lot of civilians. The U.S. was not at war with Japan at the time. So the troops killed at Pearl Harbor were in essence civilians, to Japan. While I feel saddened that so many people died in these cities. The tow in lives had the war been allowed to continue could have been much higher.
2007-11-27 09:53:48 · answer #4 · answered by jlawson1965 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes! It helped speed the end of the war and saved American soldiers lives. If Japan had the bomb you can bet you life they would not have hesitated to use it as they had not respect for human life other then their own.
2007-11-27 13:01:00 · answer #5 · answered by Old Guy 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Judging from such battles as Iwo Jima -- 6,821 Americans and over 20,000 Japanese dead in just 36 days. Yes. It was necessary. Even after both bombs, the Japanese military tried to tell the people of Japan that the Emperor was wrong and to continue the fight.
2007-11-27 09:41:54 · answer #6 · answered by Doc 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Yes, unfortunately it was. The Japanese refused to surrender and end the war in the Pacific.
2007-11-28 12:39:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes, the people of japan had been totally emursed with suicidal warfare and became finactical if we ever stormed their beaches as was being planned with our 2.1 million men on okinawa , fresh from the european theater, we were going to loose close to 1 million k.i.a. thru the end of 1946, according to the secretary of war henry stimson
2007-11-27 12:39:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes or we would have had to invade Japan.
FYI ... we are still issuing purple harts made for that invasion, it would have been a horrible loss of life on both sides.
2007-11-27 09:53:52 · answer #9 · answered by Dougal 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Evidently President Truman thought so. His rationale for the bombings was to prevent a land invasion of the Japanese homeland, which would have resulted in multiple thousands of military casualties.
2007-11-27 09:42:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋